“And of His signs is [that] He shows you the lightning [causing] fear and aspiration, and He sends down rain from the sky by which He brings to life the earth after its lifelessness. Indeed in that are signs for a people who use reason.”

Dear reader,thunder and lightning give hope that rains will come and at the same time some may fear that lightning will strike them.As stated in previous posts these phenomena are signposts to the divine.It is even mentioned in a prophetic narration what to say upon hearing thunder: